How I felt about video, its uses
and purposes has eradicated into a completely different level. My perspectives
in both sound and particularly in video have evolved into greater ideas as more
knowledge of these areas are being exposed to me. This article enabled me to
really understand how important video is for us, humans. While a song allows
one to hear the lyrics, and a painting pushes one to learn to appreciate visual
beauty, video is a mixture of both. In other words, video is the ideal combination
of both visual and auditory senses. Out of every art medium that exists, I
believe video is perhaps the only one that could catch our full attention and
in a way remain the longest in out memory. Initially, understanding what the
term intermedia implied became an issue. But once Foster began to explicate
video as an intermedia medium by mentioning its spontaneity, its ability to
compel and its capacity to live and fluctuate, it all began to make more sense.
Video is intermedia because it
can bring together the visual beauty of studio art and the romanticism of poetry.
When listening to a poem, we don’t see or evinced anything but the poet and
his/her reactions as he/she delivers the meaningful message. When walking
trough an art gallery, one does appreciate the visual essence each piece of art
gives out, but leaves the sense of hearing unattended. A quote that personally
really stood out and made such a great impact was: “Indeed, the effectiveness
of intermedia isn’t unlike the effectiveness of a human being and this is why
video, especially, has been characterized as an extension of the nervous
system.” This comparison of video and the human being and Foster’s assurance
that video is certainly an extension of the nervous system, system responsible
for all the biological processes and movement in the body, made me realize video
is responsible of activating our senses.
I would like to finish by
including an image of one of Salvador’s Dali masterpieces “The Persistence of
Memory”. I chose this painting displaying several clocks melting because I
finally understood video’s potentiality to permit time appear as passing by so
rapidly. As mentioned before it seems as if video is one of the few mediums
pertaining inside our memory.
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